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Pages
32
Published
2013
Language
English

Synopsis

In this brief and beautiful essay, Albert Camus reflects on his lifelong relationship with the Mediterranean Sea. He explores the feelings of freedom and belonging that the sun, sand, and water evoke. This is a personal and philosophical meditation on nature's power and our place within it.

About the author

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Albert Camus

Albert Camus was a French Algerian author, philosopher, and journalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. He was a key philosopher of the 20th-century and his most famous work is the novel L'Étranger (The Stranger). In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, which was a group opposed to some tendencies of the surrealistic movement of André Breton. Camus was the second-youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize for L...

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